On Sep 22, 9:57 pm, Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.niho...@verizon.nut>
wrote:
> Jim Breen wrote:
> > Years ago I went to a one-day seminar on Lateral Thinking given by
> > Edward de Bono. He used a recent case of a petrol/gas crisis as an
> > example of a lack of lateral thinking. In the crisis the government had
> > put a limit on the amount you could buy - I think it was capped at about
> > 20 litres. He said in fact there was a vast amount already sloshing
> > around in people's tanks, and the best way to get through the crisis
> > would have been to encourage people to use it up before dashing off and
> > buying more. Rather than putting an *upper* limit on purchases, it
> > would have been better to put a *lower* limit, e.g. 50 litres. (It
> > would have been hard to police, of course, but I think he was right
> > in principle.)
>
> I guess I could buy a couple of 10-liter jugs to put in the back of the
> Morris so I could have somewhere to put 50 liters of gas.
> KWW

Are you still in the Caribbean?

John W.